I am on my second session for this semester and so far I am flowing fine. It’s a psych class and not really something that I am much interested in, but some of the people in class are interesting and I can see why they might be taking this particular course.

My classes are a lot like blogging, meeting people from all over the country and world. Since my classes are online, some of the stories are just outrageous. That is if you get a good, talkative class. I have been in some real crappy classes where I think the other students have their lips sewed shut.

In a real talkative class, I wonder, “if they can share this with me here, what other things do they share?” Being online gives many anonymity. You can hide behind a fake user profile, be anyone you want to be, tell anyone anything you want - become the person you dream about. This play stage gives people the shield to basically talk about everything and anything.

I guess because my psych class has me wondering about the mind and a person’s behavior, I am at the thought state about how many people really do create an alternate personality online so that they can just be the person that they don’t want to share with loved ones and close friends?

Now, I am not dumb enough to ask you if you have done this - although that might be a story for another day - but what are your thoughts on this?

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